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On a really bad decision, the guys at The Other Side decided to watch this Eromanga Sensei show everyone’s talking about, and it’s safe to say no anime in recent memory has broke TOS the way this one did. This podcast ‘bout to bubble. But first, Cody does some housekeeping and tells everyone about the saddest group of people you’ll ever see!

No joke I thought someone’s phone went off when I started hearing CeeLo Green.

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I can actually explain why Ero-manga acted like a vampire when she closed all the blinds and stuff and why she was wobbling against the door and bannister after her brother made that love letter to her.

I’ll first start with the vampire shit. This will also help to explain why the girl acts like a spastic pervy retard all the time. When she came into that house, she was already emotionally immature and damaged from the actions of her mother. In episode 11 of Ero-manga they explain in a flashback that when her mother was alive she was also a porn artist and not only got her daughter into drawing, but taught her everything she knew. This includes how to draw in the same style as her mother. (We actually get to see her mother’s work in this flashback and it is identical to her daughter’s during the series.) This flashback is stated to have occurred five years prior to the day when she and her mother moved into the house they currently reside in. Since the sister is twelve in the series proper and by that time it has already been over a year since she shut herself off in her room, that means that the sister was five or six when this event occurred. The child’s brain would not be able to handle being introduced to these sexual drawings, and since the sister stated that she only knows how to draw using real-life models, that means that her mother either modeled for her or introduced her to people who would model softcore pornography for the kindergartener.

Fast forward five years to them moving in and the sister shuts herself in her room because she can’t handle meeting new people. The mother dies shortly afterwards which just compounds the problem. The sister then retreats into the only thing connecting her to her mother: the porn drawing. She draws and puts up her pictures on the internet, eventually becoming popular. This sudden increase in attention and adoration from people over the internet acts as an emotional crutch for the girl as she is commissioned to draw more and worse pinups. Things get worse when she lands a deal with a light novel agency and is paired up with her brother. The brother’s books are stated to not have very good writing or plots. He compensates for this by having his illustrator, Ero-manga Sensei draw only the most racy scenes he can put into the book. This crutch boosts his sales, which keeps his career afloat, and it also makes Ero-manga more popular online. With no want for human contact, (since she gets all her emotional support online,) the sister refuses to come out of her room and tries desperately to hold on to her shut in lifestyle. (Which she succeeds to do by the end of the series as the last shot of the anime is her yelling at the main character from her window.)

Her acting like a vampire in that one episode is caused partly by this, but also because she doesn’t receive enough sunlight. When the body is deprived of certain nutrients, Vitamin D being a crucial one, a human starts to exhibit psychological damage. Sunlight is a crucial component to maintaining homeostasis as it has both physiological and neurological benefits. This is why so many agoraphobes and convicts develop psychological problems during their incarceration.

Now for the banister scene. I already explained that the sister has been shut inside her room for over a year. Well, during this time, the only sustinence she has been receiving is from her brother bring her food. Her brother, however, is not always there at the house due to his work and school and will sometimes miss meals. The series mentions this, and mentions that the sister’s diet is composed heavily or junk food. The sister demands snacks multiple times a day, and will even stockpile snacks for when she doesn’t have a meal. These snacks are actually shown in episode two or three. The snacks consist of pudding and old-time Japanese treats typically used for shrine offerings. They are essentially sweetened rice crackers made using a combination of soy and sugar blown through a mold. (Similar to cheese puffs.) The ones the sister get are in the shape of a hollowed out cone, and sticks coated with granules of sugar. No doubt this girl’s teeth would be rotting and falling out at this point.

She also does not get any adequate exercise since she has trapped herself in her room all day. Her muscles would be atrophied, and her malnutrition would result in painful rickets in her limbs. (Something which the anime unintentionally succeeded in including. If you look at A-1 Picture’s art for the sister, her legs bow outward at the knee.) The constant drawing would give her arthritis (a problem which I myself have gotten from drawing) and the constant curvature from her seated drawing position would cause this girl’s spine to grow into a kyphotic “C”.

In summation, this sister is not cute or now, but in fact a thoroughly messed up individual. Her incestuous love for her brother is a side effect of the psychological damage brought on by her mother and her own lack of human contact. Her malnutrition has resulted in permanent damage to her body and mind, and her lack of exercise has practically made her an invalid. And since the series ends without any of her issues being resolved, I can only assume that this behavior continues until the sister’s body just gives out or she has a psychotic break.